IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
2 Nov - 7 Nov 2025
Session information
Can you trust a trust? Treatment of offshore structures in onshore courts
Tuesday 4 November (1430 - 1545)
Committee(s)
Litigation Committee
(Lead)
Asset Recovery Committee
Description
Individuals and companies establish offshore trusts for reasons including privacy, tax optimisation, estate planning and asset protection. But when push comes to shove, do these structures survive judicial scrutiny? This session will look at whether major onshore jurisdictions honour offshore trust structures, including examination of scenarios in which such structures have been disregarded, pierced or annulled.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Derek Adler | Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, New York, USA; North American Regional Representative, Litigation Committee |
| Helen Wang | Carey Olsen, Singapore, Singapore; Secretary, Hague Conference on Private International Law Subcommittee |
Speakers
| Shaul Brazil | BCL Solicitors , London, England; Vice Chair, Criminal Law Committee |
| Aurélie Conrad Hari | Baer & Karrer, Geneva, Switzerland |
| David Jandrasits | Schwärzler Attorneys at Law, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; Communications Officer, Litigation Committee |
| Neal Levin | Rimôn PC, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Regional Representative North America, Asset Recovery Committee |
| Bock Eng Sim | WongPartnership, Singapore, Singapore |